I wonder if one or two spots in the rankings (outside of T3) would mean any difference as far as employment prospects are concerned. Not like employees are suddenly going to recruit less from Chicago just because it fell to 7 or even 8.

The historical rankings have some shifting between Stanford and Harvard, and Columbia and NYU. The job opportunities, surprisingly, were not affected by this, nor was actual educational quality. It almost makes you wonder if these rankings have the powers we ascribe to them at all.

They're substantial in the calculations. But NW also has a low median GPA due to taking tons of work-experience splitters, and its selectivity is declining because fewer people fresh from undergrad are applying. NW's strategy of requiring work experience is definitely carving out a niche for the school, but that strategy also kills its competitiveness in the rankings. We'll see if NW decides that rankings are more important than its niche in the long run.

adameus wrote:wow, apart from the leak of the rankings, which may or may not be true. autoadmit is a shitty forum. Their layout is awful.Is there any decent content on there?

actually, the tree-style thread format is about a thousand times more useful for facilitating discussion than the format on sites like TLS where replies are simply stacked on top of one another like bricks.

adameus wrote:wow, apart from the leak of the rankings, which may or may not be true. autoadmit is a shitty forum. Their layout is awful.Is there any decent content on there?

actually, the tree-style thread format is about a thousand times more useful for facilitating discussion than the format on sites like TLS where replies are simply stacked on top of one another like bricks.

I very much disagree. One thread, one conversation. If you need hierarchies to keep it all straight, the thread need to die and be reborn as several threads.

adameus wrote:wow, apart from the leak of the rankings, which may or may not be true. autoadmit is a shitty forum. Their layout is awful.Is there any decent content on there?

actually, the tree-style thread format is about a thousand times more useful for facilitating discussion than the format on sites like TLS where replies are simply stacked on top of one another like bricks.

I very much disagree. One thread, one conversation. If you need hierarchies to keep it all straight, the thread need to die and be reborn as several threads.

The tree isn't so bad, its the tiny font and b&w that makes it visually tough to read.

adameus wrote:wow, apart from the leak of the rankings, which may or may not be true. autoadmit is a shitty forum. Their layout is awful.Is there any decent content on there?

actually, the tree-style thread format is about a thousand times more useful for facilitating discussion than the format on sites like TLS where replies are simply stacked on top of one another like bricks.

I very much disagree. One thread, one conversation. If you need hierarchies to keep it all straight, the thread need to die and be reborn as several threads.

The tree isn't so bad, its the tiny font and b&w that makes it visually tough to read.

Yes, that's also true. But I don't want to scroll for a thousand years to get to the bottom of a page. That's where a tree gets me irked.

AngryAvocado wrote:That's weird. My cousin (who also stocks shelves at Wal-Mart, ironically) sent me this leaked list, and I'd tend to believe him since he just graduated from the 12th best law school in the country.

1) Harvard University2) Georgetown University 3) New York University 4) University of Virginia 5) University of Texas 6)University of Michigan 7) Northwestern University 8 ) Columbia University 9) Yale Law School 10) George Washington University 11) University of Minnesota 12) Thomas M. Cooley Law School 13) Fordham University 14) University of California-Los Angeles

I also love the notion that if some F'ing magazine says UChicago is 7 then every big firm in Chicago is going to be sitting there thinking "Ya know what editor-of-magazine-? You're right! That place is practically TTT, let me call up some kids from Vanderbilt, they're up and coming and a few hundred miles away - that has to be a better way to spend my time."